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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Foodie Friday: Picnic

I love picnics, old Adirondacks, and vintage tablecloths. Salads are the perfect picnic food--easily transportable. A decorative "beehive" to cover food. Polka dots and plaid. Fruit and blueberry scones are also easily transportable. What are your favorite picnic foods? Do you have a favorite picnic memory? To see more tablescapes, check out the 104th Tablescape Thursday.

Epic thunderstorms passed through last night, and our internet is spotty today. I'm posting Foodie Friday early, just in case we lose wireless again.If you are participating in this week's recipe exchange, add your link below:

Oh, how adorable! What a cute, cute cloth and check napkins and what pretty goodies! And your polka dot plates are perfect for the linens and pretty outdoor scene, Michael. Love your Adirondack chairs, too. And who can resist that straw beeskeep?

Okay, my favorite picnic food? I would say fried chicken... or cheese with fresh french bread. Got to get those carbs in there. ;-)

Checking in from my blog break, and I'm so glad I did. I always leave smiling when I visit your blog...

The perfect setting for a perfect little nosh of perfect scones on some perfect little plates with exceptionally perfect napkins! Please tell us where you found that perfect 3 tiered server, Michael? I have a 2 tiered one but have been wanting 3 for a long time. Your's is...well...PERFECT!!

I was really pleasantly suprised to see that you like vintage tablecloths! I love all the bright colors and patterns you've put together. Very cheery!

My hubby and I used to go on picnics often before we were married...Our picnics usually consisted of salami, cheeses, crackers, smoked oysters, fruit, a bottle of wine and a bit of romance... Gee, whatever happened to those days!

Michael Lee, Your entry from last week's foodie friday was a hit at my house! Thanks for the wonderful salsa recipe.This week you have treated me to a cheery picnic. I love red and white and it is so fun for a picnic! The bee skeep is a brilliant idea to keep creepy crawlers away from the food. What a beautiful setting too! Now all we need is a good book... how about one of yours?Thanks for hosting again!Yvonne

Hi Miss M and thanks for hosting foodie friday! I love picnics so very much and we even have bocce balls and croquet to play since we do it so much! My recipe this week is a Bittman Broiled Grapefruit which was wonderful! Enjoy! alex@amoderatelife

I love this post. Who wouldn't want to picnic in that perfect setting. Well...maybe my husband. The last time I tried to set up a little picnic outside a yellow jacket bit him. You can be rest assured he won't be agreeing to that again any time soon! The past couple of years I've been doing portable individual desserts when we take a lunch to eat elsewhere..kind of like mini trifles.

What an exceptionally lovely and fresh idea with those two white chairs, the 'fresh' and oh-so-pretty red and white tablecloth and the beeskep with the the three tried server and yummy scones! ~ It just makes me so happy, (and hungry)~ to look at all of your lovely details and recipes this week.., Yum!

Please kindly also consider joining me for this week's 45th, Tuesday Tea for Two, weekly blog party meme held @

http://theplumedpen.blogspot.com..,

~ My meme is all about afternoon tea; I would love to have you join us!.., ( Your relatively recent; 'Picnic on the Porch', post would be just perfect for instance)!

Please pop by for a visit sometime and take a wee perusal of your own of several of my recent posts if you'd care to..,

Have a marvelous Friday and coming weekend and thanks for hosting this delightful blog party, meme dear lady!

.., My favorite picnic food is a bit unusual; It's , 'baked beans'!.., My dear grandma and then later also her son, my dad; they used bake a heavenly, homemade crock of beans and then bury the crock pot in the sand to keep them toasty warm..,

.., They would then dig them up;( they were well sealed in their pot and well covered of course), and then serve them with fluffy biscuits, cheese, chow chow pickles, potato salad, coleslaw, tomatoes, cucumbers and country ham.., Just thinking about this lovely memory 'makes my mouth water'! ~ We live near the Atlantic Ocean in Nova Scotia, Canada..,

Gollum, YIPPPEEEE! The salad servers arrived. I haven't seen them yet because I have been out of town, but Mr. Magpie says they are GORGEOUS. THANK YOU! I emailed you last night, but I wanted you to be sure to see this and to know that I will blog about them when I return from my blog break.

I love picnics any time, anywhere! My favorite memory though was right under the shade of a big tree in my backyard. Those in attendance were my mother, my sister, my daughter and myself. Three generations of strong women laughing, eating and enjoying time together. I'll never forget my mom's laugh and how much she loved my daughter. A special picnic indeed!

Love picnics, unfortunately the weather is already chilly and wet here. But for those in great warmer areas here is an awesome recipe for Red Velvet Cupcakes with a coconut, cream cheese, and marshmallow frosting...SO YUMMY!

I love all those things, Michael! Adirondack chairs especially. I linked up a frozen treat that can be either a beverage or a sherbet-type dssert. Light and refreshing ... perfect for your picnic setting. :-)

Wow...completed my post yesterday and forgot to link up...it's been one of those crazy weeks ;) Love your picnic and sure do hate to see summer end...I'm not ready for cold weather! Even with the incredibly hot summer we've had...it's my favorite season and I had it ending...let alone the fact that time just flys by way to fast. Have a wonderful weekend, fondly, Robertahttp://con-tain-it.typepad.com

Polka dots, plaids and prints so very pretty; salads and scones how delicious!

Favourite picnic food would have to be a chilled glass of Chardonnay, french bread and creamy Brie. Best memory of a picnic; when I was about seven months old and could actually touch my toes without any difficulty (as in the photo). :)

HI Micheal Lee!! Oh, your picnic setting is so pretty! Love your vintage table cloth and everything else! The salad is pretty, the beehive cover is so cute, the scones, yummy, and the fruit - juicy!You always have the prettiest photos.Hope you're doing well and I'm Foodieing with you today. Be a sweetie,Shelia ;)

Another pretty picnic! I'm loving anything with polka dots lately, so I'm coveting your cute plates, and I always love vintage tablecloths, and this is such a pretty one. You just have so many talents, and I love coming to see you work your magic. laurie

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